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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bill Bolling apparently got the memo about making sure to talk up John McCain – and take a shot or two at Barack Obama. “Contrary to, I guess, conventional wisdom, I happen to be one who believes as this campaign moves forward that Sen. McCain’s candidacy in Virginia is going…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Barack Obama campaign has a new TV that began airing in Virginia and several other battleground states beginning today that highlights the Obama tax plan that the campaign says will cut taxes for middle-class families three times as much as the McCain tax plan and also brings attention to…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] The small but cheery group of Republicans who are doing what they can to boost Jim Gilmore in his Senate race against Mark Warner are heartily pushing, following Gilmore’s lead, the notion that he is a fiscal conservative and that Warner is a tax-and-spend liberal and so you ought…
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Fear and Loathing in Staunton column by Chris Graham [email protected] So I was talking with a Staunton city-leader friend the other night about the apparently dormant case of the newspaper ad that spawned so much controversy on the eve of the Staunton City Council elections back in May. You might remember the bare details of…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Lynchburg Ledger will moderate a YouTube debate to give voters a chance to learn more about Sixth District congressional candidates Bob Goodlatte, Sam Rasoul and Janice Lee Allen. The virtual debate is the brainchild of the Rasoul campaign, which has put up a website, www.virginia6.com, and put out a…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Democratic Party nominee Tom Perriello picked up the endorsement of the Virginia AFL-CIO over the weekend. “On behalf of the 150,000 Virginia union members represented by the Virginia AFL-CIO, we are proud to endorse Tom Perriello for Congress,” Virginia AFL-CIO president Jim Leaman said at the organization’s state…
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Column by Jim Bishop MINERAL COUNTY, W.Va. – The phone call from Uncle Phil Dayton, my mom’s youngest brother, came weeks before the event, a personal invitation, and I thought, yes, why not? We pass this way but once. I’m glad we decided to make the two-and-a-half-hour trip to suburban Short Gap. It was an…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I don’t know that Virginia coach Al Groh is going to name a starting quarterback on Wednesday as his son, offensive coordinator Mike Groh, suggested in a conference call with reporters on Monday. But when he does, I am hearing that it will be Scott…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Latin sounds of Los Gatos will fill the air in the Blue Ridge Community College Fine Arts Center in Weyers Cave on Saturday. The 7:30 p.m. concert is supported by funding from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Adult admission is $5….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Barack Obama is spending the day on Wednesday in Virginia, then is spending the night that night in Richmond, according to a report on the Washington Post Virginia Politics blog yesterday. You could say that this is fueling speculation about the announcement that is expected to come on Wednesday or…
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